Good lord, was already pissed with the liberalism of the rat genocide episode, but out of the blue this fucking shit wrote by some FoxNews watcher
Love, Death, & Robots is basically a modern rendition of the Heavy Metal magazine (IIRC it's even being produced by someone who was involved in either the magazine or the movies), so at its very best it's problematic slop with some redeeming qualities and at its worst it's just outright vile (and Heavy Metal got extremely bad when it was bad, like "publishing Italian loli porn" bad or "publishing an editorial that did Reagan apologia" bad).
I wanna read all about why you think Pop Squad and the rat genocide episode are so shitty. I feel like I haven't seen too much discussion of LDR on here, so I'm all for reading others' takes on it.
The plot of pop squad is an evil distopyan future where people are immortal thanks to science but then the overpopulation problem is even worse so people cannot have children or else cops show up and shoot the toddlers in the face.
Somehow the short film is way more cringe than what I just wrote. Evfything is hamfisted.
Something tells me that the opposite would be true if people were immortal.
Yeah but all the imperial pigs die at the end of each episode so those were OK,
In this one the pigs die too, but it doesn't subvert the cringe plot, it's actually totally in line with it. And it's sofucking cringe.
Uncritical support to the cyborg grizzly ripping teams of marines into giblets.
I have never heard of this show, what happens in this episode and what is the rat genocide episode
Normally we hear about the milkshake drinking duck before we hear about their racism, but now we've become so efficient that the controversies are reaching us at the moment of learning about the media! Within a year or two we'll have celebrities generating over 2 controversies per second!
i am once again asking hexbear users to understand that portraying a bad society does not equal endorsing a bad society.
If its "written by a Christian fascist" then you chose the worse possible example to attempt to prove your point.
As I have just remembered what Love, Death, and Robots is. I both stand by and double my conclusion that this is the worst example you could use to try to prove your point. :cringe:
Watch the episode and re-read what I wrote.
The author created a distopic world. Everyone understands it is distopic, and so the author is telling you "THIS IS BAD". Dystopias always work as cautionary tales. This dystopia is so ridiculous I can only assume the author is too literal, and their worries for the future are :
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people* should have as many children as they want because it's Good(TM);
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not having children is selfish akchually;
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[this is the only one I share completely] the state should never interfere with reproductive rights of people.
Now,
* Weird how the people being persecuted for having children are white, makes me think the author worries about the old "white people not reproducing enough". In fact, please tell me if there was any brown character cuz I can't remember any.
Also, I can't separate the idea of the state shooting toddlers in the face with the old "tHe gOvErNmEnT iS kIlliNg bAbiEs" anti-abortion warcry.
So, adding these points, I can only assume the author is a boomer from Utah whose children don't want to have 7 children each as they did.
But surely I'm jumping to conclusions, and the author is just bad at writing and trying to come up with a distopic world they did the "what if the future, but smiling is illegal" bit
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I stopped watching the show after season 1 because the reliance on sex and nudity made it seem like it was written by 14 year olds. I like nudity, there doesn't need to be a reason for it in media, but it just felt exploitative in this
It's pretty fucking dull, the high points aren't really High, they're just very.... effective spectacle. something that Feels Like Something when you're watching it but if you were asked to articulate the themes and how they were executed you'd fail to produce more than a couple sentences.
Thanks for letting me know comrade. The one orange robot in the banner looked cute so I was thinking about watching that on Netflix or w/e - thanks for letting me know so I didn't get sucker-punched.
Neh I still think most are fun to watch, and some even very good. It's just these two were cringe.
